Last night, the PS/IS 217 students, parents, teachers and friends held a party in the schoolyard to thank their Roosevelt Island supporters and celebrate. According to the PS/IS 217 PTA:

On behalf of PS/IS 217 and 217PTA we wish to thank you for your amazing support of the Green Roof project. We are still pinching ourselves with joy that our island won the top votes and secured $500,000 toward the project. Thank you!...

Sincerely, PTA Co-Presidents, Olga Shchuchinov & Natalia Starkova

PS/IS 217 Principal Mandana Beckman thanked the Roosevelt Island community for its support

of the Green Roof project

and then came the Cake Celebration.

Among those thanked by Principal Beckman (pictured below at left) were Roosevelt Island residents (from left to right) Christina Delfico of iDig2Learn, Sharon Berman, Olga Shchuchinov of the PTA and Aiesha Eleusizov of the Girl Scouts.

Here's what the Roosevelt Island Girl Scouts think about the Green Roof.

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